Indiana

Storm History: Johnson County, Indiana

351 episodes, 514 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Johnson County, Indiana: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
514
Deaths
5
Injuries
39
Damage
$255 million
Episodes
351

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail12633$2.2 million
Tornado119232$69 million
Thunderstorm Wind6801$185,000
Flood6603$2.0 million
Flash Flood6100$180 million
Winter Storm2100
Heavy Snow1400$50,000
Lightning1200$945,000
Drought900
High Wind700$23,000
Ice Storm300
Excessive Heat200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Cold/Wind Chill100
Dense Fog100
Heat100
Blizzard100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Johnson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Johnson CountyEvery warning in Johnson County since 1986Every county in Indiana

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.